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Quote #4
[…] Wa bið þam þe sceal
of langoþe leofes abidan.Woe to the one
who must suffer longing for a loved one. (52-53)
The poem concludes with this gnomic couplet, encapsulating more or less the entire poem. Woe is certainly to the speaker, whose longing for her lost loved one consumes her entire existence. Everyone deals with breakups in their own way, and we know she's been banished and everything, but we really think she should move away from that cave.